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❄️ Ice Fishing ❄️
What a fun way to sneak in a lesson about letters and numbers! Our Arctic Explorers  “fished” for letters today and then sorted each catch into 3 categories: uppercase, lowercase, and number! Amazing categorizing!
What an awesome read to begin our Arctic unit today! The story is actually sung (to the tune of “Over in the Meadow”) and introduces us to some amazing animals who inhabit this polar region! Preschoolers were introduced to lemmings, caribou, beluga whales, snowy owls, arctic foxes.....
❄️ Arctic Weather Exploration ❄️
Before heading outside, we reviewed items to look for on our Winter Scavenger Hunt! Preschoolers found every item on the list , including the Sled! We all worked together as a team locating and checking off items on our list! 
Our Arctic weather discoveries were many today: large animal footprints, interesting bark patterns on a tree, squirrel tracks, 2 balls stuck in a tree, leaves eaten by bugs, and that the original name of our city, Libertyville, was actually Vardins Grove! So fun!
Our research if the Arctic taught us that caribou and snowshoe hares eat moss and lichen! Such a discovery finding a bit of green moss thriving in our frigid temps, too!
World Travelers visit Media! Mrs. Hoglund helped Preschool+ Plus learn more about the animals who inhabit the Polar regions! We loved learning all about penguins and even used  iPads to draw our own! 🐧 
Shape Hunt! Preschoolers identified shapes they were given, and then searched for their shape in our classroom. Gathering back to circle, they then took turns describing their shape to their classmates!
Young children rarely get excited and engaged as when they dabble with sensory materials that are warm/cool, wet/dry, or rough/ smooth. Believe it or not, sensory play builds nerve connections which aid a child’s ability to complete more complex learning tasks! Shaving cream is an excellent medium that we use in our classroom to also help practice such skills as writing! We look forward to using it again with our preschoolers!
Pom-Pom Color Sort gave our preschoolers practice building fine motor control by using fun tools to grasp the poms! The children sorted the poms by single attribute, color, onto the matching mitten!